Bloomberg: Next year will be one of the world’s five warmest years in a century and a half of record-keeping, according to a forecast by the U.K. Met Office and the University of East Anglia. The global temperature is forecast to be 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.72 Fahrenheit) more than the 1961-1990 average of 14 degrees Celsius, the Met Office said today in a statement. About 180 nations are midway through a series of eight rounds of negotiations to form a climate-protection agreement under …